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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

Take man’s most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
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Atheist God Image Imitation Invention Man
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
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Age Busy Learning Ourselves Teaching Time Young
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
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Build Empty Evil Greatness Hard Hide Ourselves Philosophy Pretend Ugly
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.
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Easy Inspirational Motivational Work
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Blessing Count Hard Mathematics Ourselves
I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.
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Mindset Myself Prejudice
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
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Freedom Harm Intellectual Privilege Reputation
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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Cure Privacy Sick Trouble
Children are the keys of paradise.
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Children Heaven Key One Liner
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.
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Chance Failure Person Repeat Success
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
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Attitude Character Frustration Identity One Liner
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Corruption Faith Power
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Frustration Greatness Oneself Philosophy Satisfaction Wisdom
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
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Deep Future Power Way
The future belongs to the learners-not the knowers.
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Future Learning World
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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Children Man Misery Mom Old Woman Young
Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.
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Beginning Confidence Hate Heart Life Lost Way
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
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Betrayal Deal Hard Selfish Stupidity
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
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Business Character Man Mindset People Worth
I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.
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Best Education Fate Forget Freedom Gift Hands Mad Myself Nation Surrender Willing World
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
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Deep Equality Expose Meaning Ourselves Passion Perspective
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Betrayal Help People
Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.
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Faith Hate Man People Yourself
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
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Attitude Change Simplicity Yourself
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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Death Deep Future Terrorism
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
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Cheating Feeling Himself Missing Right Thinking Trust Wonderful World

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